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Stefan Dercon is the current chief economist of the UK Department for International Development (DfID). He is a notable Micro-Development Economist who has, since 2004, been a Professor of Development Economics at Oxford University and a Fellow of Wolfson College. Between 2000 and 2002 he was Programme Director at the World Institute of Development Economics (WIDER), United Nations University where he led their research programme on “Insurance against Poverty”. Prior to this between 1993 and 2000 he was a Tenured Professor of Development Economics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.〔http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/members/stefan.dercon/default.htm〕 He is also now the Lead Academic for the Ethiopia country programme at the International Growth Centre, which is a research centre based jointly at The London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Oxford. == Key themes == His research as focused on a range of subjects including: * risk and poverty * agriculture and rural institutions, * political economy, * childhood poverty, * social and geographic mobility, * micro-insurance, and * measurement issues related to poverty and vulnerability. The work has typically involved the collection and analysis of longitudinal data sets - in particular he worked on: * an examination of rural households :: * Ethiopia (ERHS) :: * Tanzania (KHDS) :: * India (new ICRISAT VLS) * an examination of children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam (The ''Young Lives'' project). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stefan Dercon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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